The transactional carping about taxation is the same: "What do I GET for my taxes?" - You get a fucking SOCIETY. Go look it up. Oh, first learn to read so you _can_ look it up. But pay for that remedial education yourself.

It's not that they don't understand different principles - they don't understand _principles_, as opposed to crass self-interest.

They find it literally inconceivable - _literally_ literally, it just won't fit in their heads - that any mature, rational person might be driven by different attitudes. Therefore, to them, their opponents are _by definition_ either mentally deficient or liars posing in bad faith.

Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?...

I'm happy to be corrected, but as I understand it, this hasn't yet actually happened as a matter of legality. Rather, it's been adopted as a motion, and would happen if/when _that_ was passed.

I mean, not that this isn't horrifying enough. More than enough.

And what I find interesting here is that these observations about snowballing media oligarchism carry sources which are all from the same Murdoch outlet.

WTAF?!

Oh, you count Labour in 2025 Britain as left of centre? How quaint.

Gap-toothed? Tchah, you don't know you're born. Try being fat and crossing Quentin. He once planted a diary story that tried to get me fired for wearing a T-shirt - "baring too much": what, my forearms?

I'm hearing this to the tune of "Lions After Slumber" by Scritti Politti - www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ie...